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Introductions and the “forward intro email”

Making introductions is one of the most rewarding things we do as backers and builders of startups — it’s the fastest way to share one of our most important sources of power, our relationships, with promising startups and friends.

Code dependencies are the devil.

“Change is the only constant…” – Heraclitus (Philosopher)

You should only compete with one person: yourself

This perspective is what people mean by healthy competition

Building Our Own Push Notification Delivery Service

By: Amal Nanavati

When we first developed our mobile apps in 2014, we decided to use a third-party service to deliver push notifications. It was fast, easy and at the time we did not have enough…

One Research-Backed Way to Effectively Manage Your Stressful and Busy Schedule

Five Forecasts For The Future

Every now and then, it’s a fun and healthy challenge to think distantly. Sure, we already expect self-driving cars, wearable hardware, a connected home, and augmented reality. But where does the foreseeable future take us next? I’m talking more Black Mirror than investor…

It’s time to get in over your head

Sweat dripped down my forehead as I sat in a long line of cars. What would I say? What would I ask…

Making what people want isn’t enough. You have to share it.

Make a habit of sharing what you build early and often on Reddit and HackerNews. Shake your fear of rejection, and get used to filtering criticism and being outright ignored. Factor in the extra time needed on your projects to…

My $40,000 DIY MBA

How I chose myself

How to transform your product by giving it context

¿Por qué (casi) no hay Startups paraguayas de escala mundial?

My Journey Aboard the Meraki Rocketship

What it’s like to get acquired by a tech giant

How I Submitted an iOS App in 2 Months

Resources you might find useful | Update on May 12th, 2017

Mon joli Post Mortem — Reador mon amour

I Am Not Creative.

You’ve likely heard it or even said it yourself.

I’m just not a creative person.

How to Hire Great People

Don’t underestimate the importance of great hiring, it is critical to the success of your startup. Finding the…

AI is About Access, Not Interface

And how IFTTT is solving this

The career tetrahedron — a framework for tough tradeoffs

From Dancing Astronaut to Eventbrite, Senthil Chidambaram is Building Out Eventbrite’s Music Business

5 Questions Every Entrepreneur Needs to Answer Before Launching Their Next Venture

Size up the opportunity.

24 Web App indispensables à tout Startuper

Ou comment faire beaucoup plus avec moins de temps et moins de personnels.

Why I stopped studying Dan Kennedy

Some people will take that statement, in reference to Dan Kennedy, as some kind of a slight or…

Welcoming James Tamplin & Jack Groetzinger to Founder Collective

4 must haves when hiring an app designer or agency

“Code or No Code: That Is the Question. I Have a Tattoo With the Answer.”

Bringing your remote team closer

As I’m writing this, the Planetary team is spread out across 4 time…

Learning from the Nutanix IPO story

Yesterday, Lightspeed India hosted an exciting and intimate fireside chat with Dheeraj Pandey…

Open Sourcing Food Entrepreneurship

In nature, the more species there are in a system, the more diverse and strong that system becomes. The system evolves with diversity, as preferred gene variants improve species and the system as a whole. Conversely, problems happen when the system becomes too…

Some of my thoughts as we launch Pepo today and I attempt to put the epic failure of my previous company behind me.

Why Did Qihoo 360 Suspend Its Cloud Storage Service For Individual Users?

Will cloud storage service…

Bien rater sa startup #7: Je suis pas un ricain

Salut les emus. Encore une fois on était censés parler…

Seen and gone on the bleeding edge

Last week I sent a final note to our investors and formally closed up shop for the company (née…

Code as craft

The more I involve myself with the software development industry the more I see developers describing themselves as software craftsman. Surely this is a good thing, right? Sadly most of them seem to interpret this to mean they have to produce the world’s most beautiful, fully tested, totally modular…

Veux-tu nous aider à faire connaître LiveMentor ? On recherche un acrobate

Ma maman était trapéziste. Pendant dix ans, elle a bossé dans différents cirques (Gruss, Zavatta, Bouglione) et enchaîné les saltos à dix mètres de hauteur, sans filet 😇 😇 😇

A METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATION THE BUSINESS POTENTIAL OF PRE-REVENUE STARTUPS — PART ONE

Recently I was invited to give a guest lecture to the Young Venture Capital Forum of Israel — a professional association of VCs in Israel. They asked me to give a series of talks on…

Mobile marketplace apps like LetGo can upset the classifieds world order.

OfferUp, LetGo, Facebook are…

How to miss your numbers

Startups are smart people guessing the future. When you guess, you will be wrong. A lot. Sometimes your numbers will be high, sometimes low, but it is certain that you will miss.

But, there is a right way to miss (and it is not to exceed your projections…

The story of how I lost a ton of signups to a bug I never saw and could never reproduce

Faut-il éduquer son marché ou s’adapter à lui ?

Decir que no

Cómo y por qué rechazar una oportunidad de inversión

Being great at Slack is about saying no

Slack opens up an organization and busts down information silos. This is a big shift. When discussions are available to all, it’s up to the end user to decide which conversations to be a part of. This is unlike e-mail, where users don’t get to choose the…

The Rise of the Knowledge Economy

Welcome to the knowledge economy.

4 steps to turn a vitamin product into a painkiller

A Company is Born (kind of)

I have always found it weird how a company that has been in the market for a while can undertake a “launch”…

I just became a PARENT! ❤

Yesterday I got the news I so eagerly have been waiting for. My first company just got registered and issued by the Swedish Companies Registration Office.

And yes this feels some what like I can imagine the feeling would be when becoming a parent. Well maybe…

The Rise and Fall of Hackathons

Why most hackathons suck today.

Jusbrasil Tech Day 2016 — Resumão

Quem já participou de eventos de tecnologia sabe como é: um monte de nerd assistindo um cara…

Chief Financial Officer, Thomas Davies

Funderbeamer exclusive bio

“aut cum scuto aut in…

Better than blogging: 4 types of content beyond the blog

When I say I write content, a lot of people ask me what exactly I mean by that. It’s simple — I string words together into sentences, and those sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into pieces of writing that are hopefully…

3 Common Startup Mistakes You Should Avoid

You have to ask lots of questions.

Desain Bisnis “Customer Service VS Customer Experience”

Kita selalu hidup berdampingan dengan brand dan perusahaan. Banyak sekali solusi dari perusahaan yang kita konsumsi setiap hari. Beberapa perusahaan/ brand telah memenangkan hati dan kepercayaan kita. Google jadi brand paling luar…

Do you feel chained down?

You’re required to be in that chair, at that desk, from this time to that time. You could grab your laptop and…

Have YOU got MIT Entrepreneurial Spirit?

The next MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp will be held in Brisbane, Australia, in…

Rise Of The Independent Pharmacist

Google ‘independent pharmacists’ today and you will get a slew of articles on how the independent…

To spec or not to spec

Should you write a product spec for your project?

The PikaPage Story

A few years ago, I started with a simple vision to make amatuer sports more user-friendly for competition officials and…

Tyngdepunkt — nu som chatbot

Fra og med i dag kan du chatte dig til alt det bedste journalistisk. Tyngdepunkt udkommer nu som chatbot via Facebook-messenger, som sender dig links til kvalitetsartikler…

The Golden Age of Startup Introspection

It’s easy to believe we’re living in the golden age of startups. If you live in a tech hub…

Network most important

startups meeting investors

La courte vie des heures de gloire du hackathon

SilkRoll Takes On Fashion: The Resale Industry

When Does a Therapist Have to Break Confidentiality?

How LeadGenius Generated $50M+ In Revenue By Using Nylas

“Our customers generated over $50 million in…

Product Deconstruct — Clash of Clans

I recently found a Product Deconstruct that I did on Clash of Clans in 2015; and decided to share it here. :)

10 Years of Igniting Change — The Inside Story

10 years ago — in September 2006 — I handed in the documents incorporating “Comuto”. The original name of the company, known today as BlaBlaCar, was drawn from the latin verb “Commuto, Commutare” meaning “to exchange something with another”…

Product Managers, This is What a Pivot Feels Like

GroupThreads: Acquiring the World’s Largest Social Greek Network

“If you had told me a year ago that…

Well here’s a fun update… look who popped up in our Twitter notifications today. (It looks as though they’ve since deleted the Tweet, but I snagged a screenshot.) This is clearly a super-spam bot account and, in my opinion, shouldn’t be allowed on Twitter any longer.

Как строится коммуникация в самом открытом бренде одежды в мире?

Must-Read Psychology Books to Make Your Marketing Irresistible

Fear, Sleepless Nights, and Being a Small Business Owner

Right now I m sitting in our darkened living room. Fred, our Great Dane, is breathing heavily in sleep at my feet while our Yorkie Juan is snuggled tightly against my lap. It’s 2:44 am and I have been up for hours.

A Simple Guide to Being, Doing, Getting More

It’s All About People and Learning

Employer’s Job Offer Letter Template

In order to hire, you must present the prospective employee with a job offer letter. An offer…

Every [Unsexy] Thing You Should Consider Before Launching Your Business

Part 2 in a guide for aspiring entrepreneurs.

It’s A big F@!#ing Pill To Swallow

Interplay’s 4th Anniversary

Interplay is four years old. Seems like forty years to me. My life has changed so much since its inception…

Product management for European startups — Part 1

Getting hired as a remote worker

Over the last few months, I got to do about a hundred interviews to hire new members of our remote team. Here are the most frequent issues I experienced. Most of them seem obvious, but you would be surprised how frequently they happened.

Digitalization: Six Wins for The Future of Airline Duty Free Ancillary Sales

Silence Is Golden: Why Salespeople Would Be Wise to Shut Up

Thinking Inside the Boxing

And trying to figure out what is more than “work”

What I Told Obama About Energy Innovation — It’s All Local

發展金融科技的挑戰與機會

最近金融科技(fintech)議題非常火熱, 各個國家也都已發展金融科技當作是國家級的戰略, 為什麼台灣談了那麼久,似乎還發展不起來呢?

主要原因有三:

第一、政府上位者的態度

上位者的態度要明確, 臺灣在做很多創新的時候，因為沒有做過，所以就不敢做, 監管沙盒 (regulatory sandbox)目前還要觀望…

10 Best Selling Products Online in India of all Time

India’s e-commerce market was worth about USD…

Truck Hire and TMS for Logistics: Mobile Apps are the Future

Axilis makes Deloitte’s list of fastest growing technology companies

#22 in Central Europe and #3 in Croatia

Wave of Your Loneliness through Webcam Chat

Loneliness is something that each one of us goes through in today’s world as everybody is with our lives. All of us are so busy that there is no time left for personal chat or to have a close personal relation with your dear ones. Have anyone thought…

5 Ways to influence your customers like Tyrion Lannister does it

Life after Startups for News. How are the media startups holding up?

Providing video content for…

It’s Not A Unicorn, It’s A Donkey With A Pointy Valuation

Marketing your startup is a challenge

When you are a small start-up, marketing plans change rapidly, ideas for expansion come and go, but what actually matters is creating value for your industry.

You gotta have soul

Three lessons on life and work from a traditional English stick maker.

How do I get started with fostering innovation in my team?

How this startup raised $200k on IndieGoGo in 1 week

This is the beginning of my story…

Hey there, great people…let me first introduce myself – my name is Simeon Kostadinov. I am a 20…

3 questions the VP Sales of Segment.com uses to shorten sales cycles

Formal Job Offer Acceptance Letter

This blog post will teach you how to write a formal job offer acceptance letter.

Congratulations! You got your dream job and now you’ve got to craft a formal of acceptance. If you’re like me, then you hate to do this stuff.